Advertising QuotesBill Cosby (1937 - )
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Designing for Community with Zero-Advertising Brands
If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough.
Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922)
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticult Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.